Sellotapeepatolles GBS has a long and well documented history of being an adverse reaction to vaccines. It is listed on some manufacturer's package inserts as such. In other words it is an official and accepted, although fortunately uncommom, side effect of vaccination.
Doctors have been told by DoH top dogs to be be on the look out for GBS cases following vaccination with H1N1 as for some reason flu vaccines seem to provoke GBS in suseptible populations (as can the virus itself).
It is therefore not unreasonable to come to the conclusion that declaring cases of GBS following H1N1 vaccination as 'coincidences' is a little lacking in scientific curiousity and a rather blinkered view.
And you know what Sellotapeepatolles, I do voluntary work for a support group for families of vaccine damaged children and most of them have been told that what happened to them was a coincidence (some of them have GBS). When my daughter became unresponsive in the minutes following vaccination and remained that way for 6 hours I was told that it was nothing to do with the vaccines she had just received.
You know, the general medical rule is that if something happens to a patient after a medical intervention then the medical intervention is suspect number 1 until proven otherwise. This is called being ethical. Vaccines however seem to have a rulebook all of their own. It is never the vaccine unless proven 100% to be so which is asking the scientifically impossible.
We all accept that no drug is 100% safe and that adverse events do happen. I can guarantee you though that if the drug that happens to damage your loved one is a vaccine you will have a major fight on your hands to get an official acknowledgment that that is what happened even if the person goes into heart failure with the needle still stuck in their body.
I didn't have strong feelings about vaccination either way until I had personal experience of both the damage that vaccines can do, (of course to an unlucky minority for most vaccines) and worse, the dismissiveness and contempt of the medical community when a parent has the cheek to point out that their child reacted badly.
Of course vaccines cannot be safe for all of the people all of the time, that goes without saying. However in saying that, it is only honest, ethical and logical to also state that for some people things do go wrong. It is only moral to therefore say that those poor people should be listened to, respected, compensated, helped, treated and remembered when it comes to deciding vaccination policy.
If that makes me a 'conpircacy theorist' then frankly I despair for the critical thinking abilities,ethics and intellectual curiosity of those who bandy such terms about so easily.
I once heard a vaccination bigwig stating that 'you can't make an omlete without breaking any eggs'. Kinda stuck in my throat because my child is one of those broken eggs. What happened to her could have been avoided had a rudimentary screening process (which parents have been asking for for decades been in place). We're still asking and we're still being called conspiracy theorists for doing so.
Other than that please refer to previous post about the lazy, sloppy, sensationalistic, rude and offensive use of this meaningless term which has no place in honest debate by informed people.